зарубежная религиозная литература
Jews. The Making of a Diaspora People
Irving M. Zeitlin
This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the...
Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology
David Burrell B.
Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. Explores the...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions
Elias Bongmba Kifon
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to...
Faith, Rationality and the Passions
Sarah Coakley
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue
Catherine Cornille
This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration. Explores in full the background, history,...
A Brief History of Christianity
Carter Lindberg
Charting the rise and development of Christianity, Carter Lindberg has succeeded in writing a concise and compelling history of the world’s largest religion. He spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of...
A Brief History of Spirituality
Philip Sheldrake
A Brief History of Spirituality tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament to the present day. Charts the main figures, ideas, images and historical periods, showing how and why spirituality has changed and...
О кончине века и антихристе
старец Иосиф Ватопедский
«Как сказано в Священном Писании, всему свое время, и время всякой вещи под небом (Еккл. 3, 1). А потому пора и нам пристально рассмотреть и оценить дух нынешней эпохи, к чему побуждают нас многие из возлюбленных братий. Знамения времен,...
The World's Religions in Figures. An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Johnson Todd M.
Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief....
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice
Burgess Stanley M.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice brings together a team of distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and comparative account of social justice in the major religious traditions. The first publication to offer...
The Religion Toolkit. A Complete Guide to Religious Studies
Sonn Tamara
This complete overview of religious studies provides students with the essential knowledge and tools they need to explore and understand the nature of religion. Covers the early development of religion, with overviews of major and minor...
A New History of Shinto
Teeuwen Mark
This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious...
Utopias. A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
Howard Segal P.
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the...
Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics. On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts
David Clairmont A.
Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral...
The Justification of Religious Violence
Steve Clarke
How are justifications for religious violence developed and do they differ from secular justifications for violence? Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence...
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
Maryam Mafi
A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world’s most loved mystical teachers. Beautifully illustrated with Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal ebook for every MBS reader.Jalal-uddin Rumi was born in what is...
Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna’s Book
Fynn
Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her.Anna and the Black Knight introduces us to Mister John, a veteran of World War I...
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Questions Between Spirituality and Sexuality
Rob Bell
Sex God, Rob Bell’s follow-up to the bestselling Velvet Elvis, tackles the controversial relationship between sexuality and spirituality. Published as part of the Rob Bell Classic relaunch, Sex God explores the links between love, sex, and...
Socrates in the City: Conversations on Life, God and Other Small Topics
Eric Metaxas
Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts on the big questions surrounding us all today.The Greek philosopher Socrates...
The Compass
Tammy Kling
A enthralling novel about the journey of life.The Compass focuses on the individual journey, as seen through the lead character Jonathan's eyes and walk in life.Jonathan's family has been torn apart following a horrific car accident and he is...
Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering
Rob Bell
Rob Bell’s extraordinary and provocative Drops Like Stars, published as part of the Rob Bell Classics relaunch, explores the relationship between suffering and creativity, and the transformative power of pain.‘We plot. We plan. We assume things...
Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
From the bestselling writer of ‘The History of God’ and the widely acclaimed ‘Islam – A Short History’ comes Karen Armstrong's ‘Muhammad’.Muhammad was born in 570 C.E., and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community,...
Best Loved Prayers and Words of Wisdom
Martin Manser
A timeless collection of prayers, quotes, poems and speeches for every occasion. Complete with a brief introduction to each piece and its author, this book features words and prayers from 300BC to the present day. It provides a great source of...
Feet of Clay
Anthony Storr
There are many reports of strange cults which enthral their followers and cut themselves off from the world. Invariably led by gurus, or «spiritual leaders», the fruit of these cults are mass suicides in the South American jungle or the...
The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom
Далай-лама XIV
A little book for those in search of words to calm and inspire. In this gift book His Holiness the Dalai Lama imparts his message: the importance of love, compassion and forgiveness.His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes how to bring wisdom and...
The Little Book of Lent: Daily Reflections from the World’s Greatest Spiritual Writers
Arthur Howells
An inspirational source of encouragement for Lent.‘The Little Book of Lent’ is a powerful anthology of readings from spiritual writers for each day of Lent, with accompanying scripture and prayers to help guide daily reflections.With extracts...
The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide For Those Who Want to Go Deeper
Rob Bell
For anyone who wants to delve deeper into Rob Bell’s bestselling Love Wins, the expansive and accessible Love Wins Companion offers scholarly support and critiques, resources for individuals, groups, and classes, and brand new material by Rob...
The Real Witches’ Craft: Magical Techniques and Guidance for a Full Year of Practising the Craft
Kate West
A follow-up to the best selling The Real Witches' Handbook. The book includes more practical advice on becoming a Wiccan and teaches the skills and techniques necessary for celebrating this craft.This book enables you to take your magic on to...
What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Rob Bell
Rob Bell’s bestselling book Love Wins struck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians who are asking the questions church leaders have been afraid to touch. His new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, continues down this...
Do Morals Matter?. A Textbook Guide to Contemporary Religious Ethics
Ian Markham S.
The revised second edition of the accessible guide to contemporary ethical issues that are at the intersection of religion and morality The updated second edition of Do Morals Matter? offers an authoritative yet approachable guide to the current...
Julian of Norwich. In God's Sight Her Theology in Context
Philip Sheldrake
A noted scholar examines the work of the English mystic Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich is the late fourteenth-century and early fifteenth-century English woman theologian. With her mystical writings, she has become one of the most popular...
I Gesuiti Assomigliano A Ges? Come Il Diavolo A Dio
Luigi Albano
La presente edizione digitale ? stata elaborata e digitalizzata sulla base dell'ultima edizione del 1865 pubblicata in Firenze dalla Tipografia Claudiana con il titolo ”Ges? e Gesuita” di Napol?on Roussel (15 novembre 1805 – 1878).
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Il Fascino Di Medusa Tra Arte, Mito E Leggenda
Andrea Piancastelli
Due analisi, una artistica, l'altra storica, ci porteranno su percorsi diversi, entrambi affascinanti, dalle ampie valenze simboliche e psicologiche, per ricondurci infine alla stessa conclusione – la Gorgone mostruosa cela un primigenio...
Переживание Бога. Том 1
Папа Рамдас
Папа Рамдас из Канангада (1884–1963) – духовный учитель Кришнабаи и Йоги Рамсураткумара – один из самых замечательных и обаятельных святых Индии, в ашраме которого и поныне множество людей изо всех уголков мира черпают любовь, счастье и радость....
Heaven: A Traveller’s Guide to the Undiscovered Country
Peter Stanford
A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries – and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to...
In The Shadow of Mount Sinai
Peter Sloterdijk
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the...
Rejoicing
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the...
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
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Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think...
The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture
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The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are...
The Student's Companion to the Theologians
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This companion brings together a team of contemporary theologians and writers to provide substantial introductions to the key people who shaped the Christian story and tradition. A substantial reference work, bringing together over 75 entries on...
The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
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The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating and exciting area of study. The revised edition of this distinguished volume explores the intellectual origins of the Reformation and examines the importance of ideas in the shaping of...
The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion
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This prestigious Companion offers the most comprehensive survey to date of the study of religion. Featuring a team of international contributors, and edited by one of the most widely respected scholars in the field, The Blackwell Companion to...
The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity
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Now available in paperback, this Companion offers an unparalleled survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship, art, culture and politics that make up the churches of Eastern Christianity. Covers both Byzantine traditions (such as the...
Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics
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The nature of ethics has been the subject of much controversy and argument in recent decades. Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics tackles these various debates, offering a wide-ranging, comprehensive, and provocative statement of the nature...
